Intracellular Movement

Abstract

Organelle movement is a universal phenomenon in eukaryotic cells, and of major importance to complex cell functions such as metabolic homoeostasis, cytokinesis, cell development, and cell differentiation. Progress during the last decade in understanding movement of the chloroplast and positioning of the nucleus will be reported here, in extension to the latest reviews of Haupt and Seitz (1984) and Hensel (1989). Movement of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi vesicles will be discussed in more detail in the coming review, together with tropism of higher plants.